Author: InfoForTech
For 1 in 7 seniors, even eating can be a challenge due to dysphagia There’s a quiet, often overlooked challenge facing a growing number of Singaporeans—one that strikes at the very core of everyday life: the ability to eat. Many of us see food as something we can relish, from its colours and smells to its taste, and we often take it for granted. But for an estimated one in seven older adults in Singapore, or around 174,000 seniors, eating is far from simple enjoyment. These individuals struggle with a condition called dysphagia, the medical term for difficulty chewing or…
TAM, SAM, and SOM are starting points. Not answers. In a SaaS market that is actively restructuring itself, treating these numbers as gospel is how you get caught off guard. Everyone loves a big TAM. Put a billion-dollar number in a deck and watch the room light up. Investors lean in. Founders feel validated. The marketing team finally has a number to put on the homepage. And then reality shows up. Because the SaaS market right now is not behaving like the TAM said it would. Categories are collapsing. AI is eating whole product lines for breakfast. Companies that had…
Like a student in a coastal area who finally experiences stable internet connection and can now tinker with AI applications beyond social media browsing, or a food stall owner who knows how to monitor his supplies through simple applications of machine learning.No, these aren’t scenarios painted during a technology convention. These are some of the outcomes documented in the report released by the Department of Information and Communications Technology on its growing “Digital Bayanihan” initiative to provide connectivity and AI literacy to students and MSMEs nationwide.This project is also a combination of infrastructure building and AI literacy. To me, that’s…
One eye on AI: How much of the technology should a seventh grader be using and understanding? (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) I recently asked my 13-year-old daughter, a Seattle Public Schools seventh grader, how much she was currently learning about and/or using artificial intelligence. “Not at all?” she sort of asked me back. For a kid with an iPhone who interacts with Amazon’s Alexa on a daily basis, Kate is using AI more than she realizes. But aside from a STEM class she took as an elective in sixth grade, where she learned how to code a simple game,…
Ravie LakshmananMar 02, 2026Vulnerability / Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched security flaw in Google Chrome that could have permitted attackers to escalate privileges and gain access to local files on the system. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0628 (CVSS score: 8.8), has been described as a case of insufficient policy enforcement in the WebView tag. It was patched by Google in early January 2026 in version 143.0.7499.192/.193 for Windows/Mac and 143.0.7499.192 for Linux. “Insufficient policy enforcement in WebView tag in Google Chrome prior to 143.0.7499.192 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious…
Qualcomm is preparing the next wave of smartphones and connected devices for faster wireless technologies, announcing new platforms that bring Wi-Fi 8, Bluetooth 7, and 5G Advanced closer to commercial reality. At MWC 2026, the company unveiled its FastConnect 8800 mobile connectivity system alongside a new lineup of Dragonwing Wi-Fi 8 networking platforms, while separately introducing the Qualcomm X105 5G Modem-RF system aimed at powering the next phase of cellular networks. Together, these announcements highlight how Qualcomm is evolving device connectivity to handle higher speeds, longer wireless range, and increasingly AI-driven network workloads. Wi-Fi 8: faster speeds and AI-optimized networks…
Let’s say an environmental scientist is studying whether exposure to air pollution is associated with lower birth weights in a particular county.They might train a machine-learning model to estimate the magnitude of this association, since machine-learning methods are especially good at learning complex relationships.Standard machine-learning methods excel at making predictions and sometimes provide uncertainties, like confidence intervals, for these predictions. However, they generally don’t provide estimates or confidence intervals when determining whether two variables are related. Other methods have been developed specifically to address this association problem and provide confidence intervals. But, in spatial settings, MIT researchers found these confidence…
About six months ago, I noted an interesting divide among the right-leaning or politics-adjacent podcasters and influencers who helped get Donald Trump reelected. They were either shutting up about politics, bending over backward to justify his policies, or citing a couple of issues — ICE and the Epstein files — as red lines causing them to turn on him.What united them all was a loss of enthusiasm for him: not really championing him the way they did when they gave him a platform during the 2024 campaign season. That’s why I was especially curious to see how this MAGA-manosphere would…
Mick Mulvaney wants to be clear: He really likes gambling. “You’re talking to the only former member of Congress who’s won a poker tournament in Las Vegas,” he tells WIRED. When he was representing South Carolina in the US House of Representatives, he pushed for the state to allow sports betting.Because of his background, Mulvaney, a former Trump administration official, says he can tell when something is gambling—and that the sports contracts on prediction markets fit the bill. “You know the old saying, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck?” he asks. “If…
TCL has been making smartphones and tablets at an impressive clip for years. While most companies have focused on foldable display tech — and TCL has dabbled — the focus has been on its NXTPAPER screens. Aimed at being friendlier on the eyes, and pitched as a device somewhere between e-ink slates and traditional tablets, NXTPAPER has gradually been upgraded and refined, reaching an apex at CES 2026 earlier this year with the Kindle Scribe-alike, the Note A1 NXTPAPER and its latest smartphone, the NXTPAPER 70 Pro.At MWC, just a couple of months later, it’s preparing for a major leap…